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new compter screens, i hate em.
we got new laptops at work not long ago, they have the new wide screens. it streches everything, i hate it. i was looking at monitors for the home computerand they are all the same. i guess they are catering to the computer geeks that live on their computers and like to watch movies.
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You just need to set the display to meet the ratio... a normal screen may be 1024x768, but your wide screen may be 1600x768 or similar... check your display properties.
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I think that they are going to widescreen because it's cheaper. For a given diagonal size, the area of the screen is less if the thing is "widescreen" but because it's widescreen, they market that as something special.
The only reason that everything is stretched is because you are using a standard resolution. If you set the resolution to 1024x768 or 1280x1024 on a widescreen, then everything will look funny. On a widescreen, the normal native resolutions will usually be something like 1450x900, 1680x1050, 1920x1200 or something like that. If you set your resolution to one of those, then things won't look stretched. Your wallpaper will probably look stretched unless you crop one to the correct aspect ratio or find one on the net in the correct aspect ratio (there are some out there).
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I love widescreens, I do not notice any stretched effect, just more viewing area.
I have had widescreens for a couple of years at home but recently added a 22" at work. My reports were always viewed in landscape and I use to have to slide to see the right side, now the whole report is on one screen.
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I have normal monitors on my desktop at work. Key word is monitors - 2 of 'em. Normal aspect ratio, but 2x the real estate.
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They are going to widescreen, because the manufactures are building 16:9 not 4:3 ratio anymore. They make the screens in the same general assembly lines for HDTVs as for computer monitors.
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The 22" monitors from Dell are only about $250, and the refurbinshed ones I purchsed were only about $119 each.
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Really, $119. I may have to look into that. The monitors that they give us at work suck. I have 2 and it's still inadequate.
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Hmm, right now the dell outlet's got a refurb 22" that does 1920x1080 for $179, but that's not bad.
I may have to buy one or two of those for work.
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If it is stretching, you have the resolution set wrong.
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02-05-2009, 06:14 AM
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I'll trade you my regular screen CRT for you widescreen LCD.
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I like widescreen monitors better because I can fit two documents side by side without anything overlapping too much. Works great for what I do.
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That's what I don't understand. Documents (email, webpages, word docs, most pdfs) are all in portrait mode and are like a widescreen, but set on it's side. You'd think that more screens would be setup in portrait natively. I guess gaming and tradition are the biggest things holding folks back.
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I bought (4) 22" E228WFP's from Dell - refurbished $179 each. Nice monitor for the money. Only complaint is the angle viewing, straight on looks fine.
Dell sells a much nicer screen but the cost is almost double.
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For excel, the widescreen is a boon- I can see like 8 months further out without scrolling. Now... TWO 22" monitors would just abotu end scrolling forever!!! Ooohh, the nerdy fantasies I harbour.
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got a 24 inch dell ultrasharp wide screen on a pivot mount...
1920x1200 and a tool so i can drag a window to the left, and another to the right, and have em lock at just half the screen that's real estate and real estate management
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02-05-2009, 12:39 PM
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look ma, no scrolling !
 to be honest, had to ctrl - in firefox for that...
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